This is the information page about the shipwreck War mehtar, the water chart below shows the wreck in its immediate vicinity. The position of this wreck is 52 36.364 N,2 8.911 E (52.7504, 2.0371)

 

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The texts accompanying this shipwreck are in English 🇬🇧, as they are prepared by the UK Hydrographic Office (UKHO) based on data from UKHO and the hydrographic services of the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany, among others. They include the known details of the wreck and the comments of the cartographers who have checked the position and condition of the wreck over time.

 

1. Abeona
2. Atle
3. Avonwood
4. Begona no 5
5. Blacktoft (possibly)
6. Bovey tracy
7. Boy karl
8. Burtonia (possibly)
9. Castle galleon
10. City of kobe
11. Claudia (possibly)
12. Corbrook
13. Cormead
14. Crichtoun
15. Cross sand ltv
16. Django
17. Edinardue antoinette (possibly)
18. El dorado
19. English trader
20. Excellenz mehnert
21. Fidelio
22. Frumenton
23. Galatea (possibly)
24. Gasfire
25. George fisher
26. Girl linda
27. Glen tilt (possibly)
28. Glynn
29. Goodwood (possibly)
30. Groenlo
31. Gulf breaker
32. H h petersen
33. Hamsterley
34. Helena
35. Hms bracklyn (possibly)
36. Hms evesham (possibly)
37. Hms exmoor
38. Hms fontenoy
39. Hms glen prosen
40. Hms ocean plough (possibly)
41. Hms orthos (probably)
42. Hms pelton (probably)
43. Hms speeton (possibly)
44. Hms tettenhall
45. Hmsm d5
46. Horseferry (probably)
47. Ionian (probably)
48. Kenneth hawksfield
49. Kentwood (probably)
50. Knitsley (part of)(probably)
51. Knitsley (possibly)
52. Langeli (possibly)
53. Leopold ii
54. Liliane (possibly)
55. Lindisfarne (probably)
56. Lingfield
57. Maria rosa
58. Mascota (possibly)
59. Memento (possibly)
60. Merchant
61. Mirella
62. Montferland
63. Mudo
64. Navarra (possibly)
65. Nereus
66. Newland (possibly)
67. Nordborg (possibly)
68. Noreen
69. Novocastrian
70. Oil trader
71. Onto
72. Otis tarda
73. Philipp m
74. Pluton
75. Prosper
76. Quest
77. Ren
78. Robin iv
79. Robrix
80. Rogate
81. Roine
82. Rokos vergottis
83. Rye
84. Scotia
85. Sea rhine
86. Silksworth hall (probably).
87. Skodsburg (possibly)
88. St patrick
89. Stad alkmaar
90. Stanmount
91. Strive
92. Taber park
93. Togston
94. Tregantle (possibly)
95. Trevethoe
96. U 13 (probably)
97. Vanguard
98. Vigia
99. Virgilia
100. War mehtar
101. Waterloo
102. Willowpool
103. Yewvalley (possibly)

 

Name: WAR MEHTAR

Length 121.9 meter, width: 15.8 meter, draught: 7.9, tonnage 5502 ton
Load: flammable liquids and gases,oil

Cause: Built in 1920 by w g armstrong & whitworth co ltd, newcastle-upon-tyne. triple expansion engine of 517 nhp, single shaft for 11 knots. passage grangemouth for harwich. torpedoed by e-boat s-104.

Year of registration: 1941

Water depth above wreck: 39 meter, Height above seabed: 116 cm

Known since: 1941, last detected: 20170316

Details measurements/cartography: H04039/41 25.11.41 1 MAST & 20FT OF SHIP SHOWING AT LW IN 523545N, 020920E. (HMS VERDUN, 21.11.41). H04039/41 21.3.42 SWEEP CLEAR AT 44FT. (FOIC YARMOUTH, 10.3.42). INS AS NDW.

- NM 619/42. 11.10.60 AMEND TO DW. NC 2013. H3730/69 30.5.69 EXAM'D IN 523627N, 020903E [OGB] USING HIFIX [2 LOP]. LEAST E/S DEPTH 92FT IN GEN DEPTH 139FT. SCOUR 151FT. (HMS BULLDOG, HI 38/68). AMEND TO WK 15FMS IN REVISED POSN. BR STD. H4398/71 16.9.71 EXAM'D IN 523630N, 020905E [OGB] USING HIFIX/6 [2 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 28.1MTRS, FOUL 29.1MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 28.4MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 40.0MTRS. SCOUR 48.0MTRS. LARGE WK, LYING NNW/SSE, ABOUT 650FT LONG. OBVIOUS SWIRL AT MOST STATES OF TIDE. (HMS ENTERPRISE, 21.6.71). AMEND TO SW 15FMS 2FT IN REVISED POSN.

- NM 378/72. 5.4.72 AMEND TO SW 28MTRS. NC 1543. 21.11.72 SHOWN IN 523630N, 020905E [EUR] ON NETH FISHERIES 1954 [REC'D 7.11.72]. H4629/71 21.12.71 LYING ON PORT SIDE. (COSAG, LTR DTD 30.11.71). HH090/616/01 24.10.94 EXAM'D 3.7.94 IN 523620.2N, 020901.3E [OGB] USING SYLEDIS [3 LOP]. SWEPT CLEAR 26.6, FOUL 26.9MTRS. LEAST E/S DEPTH 27.2 IN GEN DEPTH 39.0MTRS. SCOUR DEPTH 2-3MTRS. DCS3 HT 13.5MTRS. LENGTH 132MTRS, WIDTH 15MTRS. LIES 110/350 DEGS. IN ONE PIECE, POSSIBLY UPTURNED. (GARDLINE, HI 616). AMEND TO SW 26.5MTRS.

- NM 3901/94. SEP 2017/000067039 7.8.17 EXAM'D 16.3.17: IN 5236.364N, 0208.911E [WGD]. LEAST M/B DEPTH 27.63MTRS IN GEN DEPTH 39MTRS, LENGTH 124.7MTRS, WIDTH 16.6MTRS, HEIGHT 13.3MTRS, ORIENTATION 116/296 DEGS. SCOUR LENGTH 455.3MTRS, 9MTRS DEEP, TOWARDS 175 DEGS. WRECK IS A LARGE INTACT AND UPRIGHT CONTACT. (GARDLINE, HI 1516). AMEND DW 27.5MTRS IN REVISED POSN.
Comment researcher: UK Hydrographic Office

Position: 52 36.364 N,2 8.911 E

 

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